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Saturday, January 21, 2012

"CHOOSE" a door

I have tried to make my singing time activities match the theme for this year about Choices and choosing the right. Tomorrow I plan on doing an activity that I did last year and it was a big hit!

I used two poster papers to make Door #1 and Door #2.

Since I am teaching the THIRD verse of As A Child of God tomorrow, I took the verse and omitted some key nouns and verbs.

In my own ___________, I'll happily ______________. I'll ____________ my ______________ by my _______________ _________________. You could either have this on strips of papers or write it largely on the board.

To begin we sing the first two verse for review. Then I tell them we have one more verse and they get to "choose" doors in order to build it. I choose a child from my choosing jar to come up. They get to pick a door to fill in our first blank. Inside the doors are words that could fit in the blanks.

I then cover each word with numbers that match which blank they could fit into. Then I cover then with the numbers 1-6.

If the child picks Door #1 they lift up the flap for space one, in Door #1. If they picked Door #2 they lift up the flap for space one in Door #2.

So for example, if my first child picks door number one, our song would be... In my own DONUT. We talk about why that would not work. Then we get the right word out of the other door. Notice I made sure that the words are placed randomly in the doors.

We continue to do this until the entire verse is built. After each word is added we sing what we have built so far, until finally we are singing the entire verse. This activity really emphasizes the words in the song and I get a chance to clarify their meanings and the importance of having them there.

1 comment:

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